01 Sep 09 SEO SIMPLIFIED: What is ‘nofollow’ Attribute
No-Follow Attribute and hotlinking prevention are two important factors that help you safeguard your website from link and comment spammers. Let us discuss them one at a time beginning with “nofollow” attribute in this article.
Nofollow attribute
“Nofollow” (rel=”nofollow”) is a HTML attribute designed to fight link and comment spams. If a webmaster attaches a “nofollow” attribute to a link then this gesture means that the webmaster wants to signal some of the search engines that the link should not influence the ranking of the link’s target.
A No-follow link looks like:
<a href=”http://www.example.com/” rel=”nofollow”>discount drugs</a>
How different search engines react to nofollow links?
Google: The search giant claims that it does not follow the “nofollow” link, but some of the experiments showed that Google follows the “nofollow” link, but it does not index the target of the link.
Yahoo: Yahoo follows the link with “nofollow” attribute, but it does not include the target of the link in its rank calculation.
MSN: This search engine also does not use “nofollow” links in ranking, but SEO community is unsure if MSN follows “nofollow” links or not.
Bing: There is a controversy regarding Bing’s behavior to “nofollow” links. SEO researchers have found that Bing do not respect “nofollow” attribute and it follows and use the target of “nofollow” link in ranking as well.
The webmasters have reacted to this, and we can soon see Bing following the industry standard for “nofollow” links.
In the next article, I will talk about preventing hotlinking.
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Gossimer in the News
- Gossimer Puts Indian Domain Extensions Up for Sale February 21, 2010Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company has announced a sale on Indian domain extensions. During the promotion period, domains ending with .in will be offered at discounted price. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Unveils a New & Improved Payment System February 14, 2010The Melbourne-based (Florida) web hosting and domain name registration company Gossimer has announced the inclusion of three more payment options in its system. From today the customers and the web hosting resellers can use AlertPay, WebMoney, and Liberty Reserve to pay for the domain registration as well as web hosting services. Gossimer already offered Pay […]
- Gossimer Has Opened Its Treasure Chest for Webhost Resellers January 16, 2010Gossimer, the fast growing domain name registration and web hosting company has yet again opened its door of their reseller program. This program offers a comprehensive web hosting product portfolio for resellers and resellers of Gossimer’s resellers. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Invites Customers to Try Digital Certificates for Free January 2, 2010Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company is offering 21 days free trial on digital certificates. This trail will allow webmasters to understand the role Https plays in building visitors’ confidence in their website. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Announces Special Domain Name Registration Deals December 25, 2009Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company has announced a special deal on 12 top domain extensions and that includes some CTLDs as well. This promotion is available on the registration of new domain names, and you can register as many domains as you want. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Announced a Transfer-in Domain Promotion to Allow Customers to Consolidate Their Domains Into One Account November 7, 2009Save money on domain name transfer to Gossimer. Gossimer is currently running an attractive promotion on domain transfer-in that will save a lot of money for the domain portfolio builder. You can transfer as many domains as you wish under this promotion. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Became Reseller of the Month for October October 17, 2009October brings another piece of good news for Gossimer. The fastest growing web hosting and domain name registration company has been chosen as the Reseller of the month for October by ResellerClub. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Offers One Year Free Extension on Domain Transfer October 3, 2009Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration company, is offering one year free extension with every domain name transferred to its system. This service when coupled with other services puts Gossimer in the position of price leadership. The company offers the most economic rate for domain name registration and webhosting services. [PR.com] […]
- New Deals Make Gossimer Bigger, Better and Smarter October 2, 2009October is going to be hot with offers, extended support, and enhanced serviceability, as Gossimer has acquired HiTek Networks, and launched new and improved Support desk. The web hosting world is abuzz by the two important developments in Gossimer. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Offers Unlimited E-mails for $1 September 28, 2009Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name and webhosting company, has announced a no-upgrade “The Ultimate Email Plan” that will give the buyer an access to unlimited email accounts for just $1/month. [PR.com] […]
Gossimer Promotions and Announcements
- TechSupport Notifications February 28, 2010Technical support information and notifications […]
- PHP4 Discontinuation - 18th September September 7, 2009As announced earlier, PHP4 will not be supported on our Linux Hosting Servers from the 18th of September, 2009. Please pass on this information to your Customers and Resellers to ensure that they can update their websites to work with PHP5. […]
- .CN Launch - Coming Soon August 16, 2009We are glad to announce the launch of .CN - the most popular and fastest growing ccTLD worldwide. The .CN domain extension has seen an exemplary growth since its launch throughout the world. Earlier this year, .CN crossed over 13 million registrations to become the second most registered domain extension after .COM. Moreover, with China now representing the […]
- Live Chat Product Discontinuation - Moved to 18th August August 16, 2009Based on feedback that we received from several Resellers, we have decided to postpone the Live Chat discontinuation to the August of 18th, 2009 at 12:30 UTC. From the 18th of August, it will not be possible to purchase new Live Chat packages but exisiting packages will continue to function normally. […]
Support Notifications
- Scheduled maintenance on one of our Mail Hosting Server July 26, 2010We are performing maintenance on on one of our Email Hosting Server. In order to complete this maintenance, the server will undergo a brief outage, as detailed below. Maintenance Window: Date: 27-07-2010 Start Time: 20:30 Hrs GMT Estimated Duration: 20 mins Packages hosted on the below mentioned IP Addresses shall be affected: 67.15.253.246 67.15.253.9 67.15 […]
- Services effected July 26, 2010We have been facing issues adding hosting orders for a few customer accounts from the supersite. Also, there have been a few problems reported for managing hosting orders from within the control panel. Please note that everything via the API has been working seamlessly. We are already working on these issues and will keep you updated via […]
- Merging of Web & Email Hosting Services July 23, 2010Update: The maintenance is now complete, Web and Email Services have now been merged successfully and can be managed from the Control Panel. Please make note of the following : We have migrated the prices of these orders for one year and hence you would need to set the prices for the duration you would like to […]
06 Oct 09 3 Cs of Blogging – Comment, Conversation and Community
Acquiring new users and keeping the existing ones is the goal of any blog. The blog’s success in these two departments will determine the overall success of a blog, and fortunately there is a way to do this. A system that will help you acquire new visitors and retain the existing ones. We call it 3 Cs of blogging: Comments, Conversation and community.
Comment
Comment is the life blood for your blog. This is the juice that flows only when you write a compelling post and ask people to send in their views by adding call to action at the end of each blog post. At the end of the post ask your visitors to leave comments, suggestions and their opinions about the post. This will prompt them to write on your blog.
The best way to get comment is to write something controversial. Having said that, it is worth mentioning that despite what you do, comment rate will never be more than 1-2 percent of the total readership.
Conversation
Take it like this: you started the conversation by writing a post, and the readers did their part by writing their views in the comment box, now it is again on you to respond to each comment to keep the conversation going. You should never stop responding to your visitors. You will stop getting comments, the moment you stop responding to your visitors, so keep the conversation flow swift and let the comment juice flow.
Community
A lot of two-way conversation builds a community on your website, a community of people that have similar aspiration and desire. Now it on you, the blogger, to keep the community intact by providing the community what it seeks. If you want to build a pool of loyal reader then do not ignore any reader. Respect each of them, and respect their views. By respecting their views, I do not mean to say that accept it. You have all the right to contest their views and think differently, but do it in such a way that it does not offend the visitors.
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